How Sweet Are You Honey?

Before sweet and honey, diabetes is the main issue. Basically, diabetes is a metabolism disorder. It is caused by the inability of the pancreas to produce insulin, a hormone that pushes the sugar in the blood to the cells. With less insulin, sugar remains in the blood and so are starches and carbohydrates. They are eliminated to the urine.

Eating just enough

We all know the importance of balance diet especially for diabetics. Furthermore, diabetics are more keen on sugar, sweet and honey.

Generally, eating excessively is gluttony and Nature can take its revenge. More carbohydrates, starch and sugar that a glutton eats cannot be utilized, so they are flushed to the urine and returned back to Nature. So the glutton does not benefit from his illegitimate gains. So, he must famish amidst plenty.

Thin people rarely acquire diabetes. Obese ones have excess starch and sugar which do not oxidize but rather form fats that disintegrate the body.

Now what can honey do?

Honey is a sweet brownish or yellowish fluid produced by bees from the nectar of flowers and is used as food.

It is a conventional wisdom that sweet and diabetes cannot go together. And so are honey and diabetes.

However, it is a surprising fact that the sugar balance in honey makes it different from ordinary sugar and artificial sweeteners. Honey is a different food.

Diabetics should ask their doctor what are the specific fruits that they can eat. One tablespoon of honey has a carbohydrate amount equivalent to a cup of quartered raw apple. Honey intake can produce a blood sugar response that is lower than an ordinary sugar or glucose-rich starches do.

Some studies say that honey consumption for several weeks can help lower blood sugar levels by more than 60 to 100 mg/dl at 60 to 90 minutes after ingestion of a comparable amount of sucrose.

Commonly though, sweet and honey intake should still be balance. Balance of food intake is important not only for diabetics but for the general population as well.

Diabetics though are more keen in food intake and balance diet and substituting sugar with honey should not be an abused privilege.